THE FRIDAY CROSSWORD

AND THE WINNER IS ...

March 29, 1996

ACROSS

1 Miami's county

5 Mediterranean republic

10 Septa follower

14 Roman road

15 Perpendicular to the keel

16 Discomfort

17 Best Picture, 1943

19 Deadlocked

20 Wapiti

21 ---- -Rooter

22 Dolphin

24 Preordain

26 Silver, for one

27 Summer quaff

28 Overwhelm, in competition

29 Former track star Sebastian

32 Slack-jawed

35 Sympathetic

37 Sound unit

38 Outside: prefix

39 Aroma

40 Car stopper, in a pinch

43 Author Hite

44 Crimson rival

45 Good-natured

46 Latin I word

47 Like a Dean Koontz novel

49 Captain's employee

53 One of the Bachs

55 ---- La Douce: 1963 film

56 Tokyo, once

57 Sorrowful exclamation

58 Best Picture, 1964

61 Distance for 20 Across

62 Astonish

63 Popular women's magazine

64 Cotton pod

65 Archibald and Thurman of the NBA

66 Notices

DOWN

1 Cut into squares

2 ---- of Two Cities

3 Office furniture

4 Important period

5 Sam of Cheers

6 Let up

7 Letterman rival

8 Tic-toe connector

9 Best Picture, 1984

10 Rossini work

11 Best Picture, 1932-33

12 Deadlocked

13 Part of AD

18 Member of the wedding

23 NFL Hall-of-Famer Graham

25 Recorded, in a way

26 ---- Carlo

28 Best Picture, 1976

30 ---- about

31 French I word

32 Late great of tennis

33 Orr score

34 Best Picture, 1977

35 Stop

36 Not at all

41 City in Switzerland

42 Best Picture, 1988

43 Blotch

46 Hosts

48 Artist's aid

49 Fad

50 Dry and crumbly

51 Bewilder

52 The Torchbearers poet

53 Door frame part

54 Hodgepodge

55 ---- first you don't ...

59 Actress Sumac

60 Grant or Majors